The End of an Era

Today, Geocities will be closing down for good. It's a sad day because I associate Geocities with the start of the Internet for the public. It was really the first place where people hosted their own websites. Started in 1994, I think I had an account sometime in 1995, and hosted my own web page there. It was a convenient place to store files in the Internet, and in the early days of online dating it was an easy place to point people to, in order to find a picture of yours truly.

Fast forward to the present, and if you were lucky enough to check out my Geocities page today before it goes offline, you'd see I haven't updated the page since 2005. It still shows the house were were living in, when Lauren was born, and of course we've moved twice since then. So in some sense Geocities didn't keep up with me either, as I moved on to blogging, and blogging turned out to be an easier way to keep people up to date on our activities than maintaining an entire website. Kodak Gallery and other photo sites made it easier to post pictures.

All I can say is Rest In Peace Geocities.